Author: GBK
Date: 2005-05-28 03:30
clarinet87 wrote:
> Arban's Complete Conservatory Method for Trumpet? Just
> curious, but why would someone learning clarinet need a method
> book for trumpet?
As I had written previously:
The Arban Complete Conservatory Method For Trumpet is the rough equivalent of what the Klosé Method is for clarinet.
Since I began incorporating the Arban Method into my student's studies, I have seen a substantial growth in their playing. Tonguing speed has increased (my students cannot double tongue - but their single tonguing is now definitely quicker), scale facility has greatly improved (as Arban has numerous scale patterns and drills to choose from), and sight reading is markedly more secure (Arban has 150 short phrasing/sightreading melodies taken primarily from operas).
One nice feature of the Arban book is that all the exercises, melodies, duets, themes and variations, etc... all lie (for the most part) between C4 and C6, thus the student gets to build technical skills in the most used clarinet register.
As Allen Cole once said (on this bulletin board) "The Arban Book makes the student USE their scales and arpeggios, rather than just recite them back."
Also, after 30+ years of teaching out of Klosé, Rose, Baermann, Kell, etc... it is rejuvenating to find another supplemental method which builds skills and covers ground in a slightly different way.
The only problem - the book weighs about 2 pounds...GBK
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